SES Chicago: Finding Balance In SEO
Crafting a site involves people with different focuses and skill sets. Allowing them to run free instead of working together is a recipe for disaster. SES Chicago returns, and WebProNews is on hand to bring you reports and videos from the Windy City. Enjoy our coverage this week. United we profit, divided we watch someone [...]
CNet Eats Millions On Webshots Sale
CNet’s 2004 purchase of Webshots for $70 million became a bargain pickup for American Greetings, which paid $45 million to take it off CNet’s hands. In an internal email to CNet staffers, as seen on Valleywag, CEO Neil Ashe characterized the firm as "the media company of the future." It just won’t have the pretty [...]
Google Challenged On Patent Reform Stance
The latest contribution to the Google Public Policy blog, on the topic of patent reform and Google’s stance, received a pointed rebuttal from a Brookings Institution guest scholar.Google would like the current patent system fixed. They plan to chat with members and staffers of the House of Representatives about their views of a system Google [...]
GPhone Rumor “Confirmed” Again
The ‘yes it’s here’, ‘no it isn’t’, ‘yes it is’ tennis match of rumors about a Google-powered mobile phone have been entertaining to watch, as yet another source swears on the immaculate souls of Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn souls that the GPhone is alive and on the way.As each Google Phone rumor makes the [...]
Google Blogging, Good And Bad
Google may have lost the last of its innocence with an ill-advised rah-rah blog post for the healthcare industry, but made an effort to recover with a redesign of its philanthropic Google.org site.The shine is off Google’s rose for good, the ‘don’t do evil’ motto neatly tucked under fresh-turned earth. Somewhere in the distance, a [...]
Google Earth Outreach Non-Profit Initiative Launches
At the Googleplex East this afternoon, Google’s introducing Google Earth Outreach, “a new program designed to help nonprofit organizations around the world leverage the power of Google Earth to illustrate and advocate for the important work that they do.” The room is packed with mostly representatives of non-profit organizations The program allows non-profits to layer [...]
Speaker Pelosi Queries Yahoo Answers
Yahoo’s efforts at heightening awareness of global warming has drawn a question from a very high-profile person for the Yahoo Answers audience.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has become the latest celebrity participant in Yahoo Answers. The Internet company’s ‘Be A Better Planet’ campaign marks Yahoo’s search for the greenest city in America. As part of the [...]
Yahoo News Reads McClatchy Coverage
International news items created by McClatchy foreign correspondents will be added as ‘Trusted Voices’ to Yahoo News. Global newsmaking places like the Middle East and China should be more complete in the eyes of Yahoo News readers with the expanded coverage Yahoo plans to offer. Their deal with The McClatchy Company brings the professional knowledge [...]
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